An officer from the state regulatory authority is visiting the service in which you are employed as an educator.  They will be conducting a rating and assessment visit.  As part of this process, the officer will be looking for evidence that the service has embedded environmentally sustainable practices into their daily routine. What are the ten key areas of the environmental responsibility and sustainability that these practices might relate to?

 

Q17. What is the primary purpose of a sustainability policy in a children's educational and care service?

 

Q18. Explain each concept as they relate to the responsibility humans have to act in ways that protect the environment and acknowledge the moral significance of all living things

• Environmental Ethics

• Sufficiency

• Compassion and solidarity

 

Q19. You have been assigned responsibility for consulting with service stakeholders to identify potential changes to the service philosophy, policies and procedures as they relate to environmental responsibility.  Which group of stakeholders should be consulted and why is it important to do so?  Consider the people whose ideas and input are important, and what they can contribute.

 

Q20. Identify seven potential barriers to developing organisational sustainability.

 

Q21. Environmental responsibility plans must include strategies that encourage children participation in sustainability practices.  Identify and describe ten strategies that educators could use to develop and implement to encourage children's participation.

 

Q22. The service has decided that it will focus on energy conservation and has developed a plan to support this.  In a paragraph explain how qualitative data will contribute to an assessment of whether the planned improvements were successfully deployed?